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...week. They also forsook their tepid brews by the million, sending the sale of chilled Continental-style beer up by 60%. Hot pants were everywhere to be seen on Rome streets, as were nude bathers on Copenhagen beaches, and topless nymphs in Stockholm parks. Though the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace sweltered stoically in their bearskins, London bobbies resorted to what some considered to be the British equivalent of toplessness -they went tieless. "It's the first time in our history we've allowed them to do this," explained an apologetic London inspector. "As soon as the weather...
...inspired by the 75th birthday this week of Britain's Queen Mother, who endures as her country's beloved matriarch. Though she declined to appear for any television interviews, she willingly posed for an official birthday photo, and her royal family planned a black-tie dinner at Buckingham Palace complete with Scottish pipers, a three-tiered birthday cake and, rumor had it, some spoof gifts from Grandson Prince Charles. As one admirer explained, the "Queen Mum" has always enjoyed a good "legpull...
...appeared in inferior O'Neill (More Stately Mansions), hand-me-down Shaw (Captain Brassbound's Conversion), and now in fossilized Maugham. Bergman has treated each of these dilapidated vehicles as if it were the Queen's own royal barouche wheeling through the gates of Buckingham Palace. Indeed, Elizabeth II would not fault Bergman's acting technique-a tilt of the head, a flash of a smile and the wave of a hand...
...Gladstone, Queen Victoria's least favorite Prime Minister, who, in his avowed efforts to save prostitutes from sin, apparently indulged in unspecified sexual pleasures and then scourged himself in punishment. The other, released by the Public Records office, discloses an unsuccessful cover-up by the British Cabinet and Buckingham Palace, which tried to suppress the facts about the homosexual activities of Lord Arthur Somerset, equerry to the then Prince of Wales who in 1901 became King Edward...
...would like to be known as Sir Charles, not Sir Charlie," announced Charlie Chaplin, 85, shortly after receiving his long-overdue knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Chaplin, who arrived for his investiture at Buckingham Palace clad in morning clothes and blue suede shoes, accepted his dubbing from a wheelchair, then retired to the Savoy Hotel to accept congratulations from Prime Minister Harold Wilson and other fans. "I was too dumbfounded to talk to the Queen," confessed Sir Charles later. Less awed was his daughter, Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 30, who came to London for the ceremonies with...